(This is mainly part of a letter from Kate probably my great aunt-sister to my grandfather
John Armstrong Alexander.)
Written from 47 Tavistock St. Bedford. 6/7/1900 To Alice.
(( )) = My additions
Capt. Thomas Armstrong (Am) supposed to be a younger brother of Sir Thomas Am. (Judge Jeffries victim) settled in Tipperary, at the
old Castle of Farney Bridge, near Thurles, Co.Tipperary.(Tipp.) soon after the battle of Worchester (some say in 1660) He was a Capt. Of a troop of horse attached to the
Tipperary Militia in 1688. He married
Alice dr.of Sir Thomas
Deane of Clare Co. Suffolk.
His eldest son
John married (M)
Julianna, dr, of Robert
Carew Esq. of Ballyboro Co. Wexford, (( Born 1640? D. 1706/7))
from him came the A’s of Mount Heaton King’s County, now represented by Mr. Macdonnell Am. Co. Clare.
Capt.Thomas Am’s 2nd son,
Thomas, B. (1671) of Meanliffe (now Moyaliff, Co. Tipp., M.
Mary dr. of Robert
Carew Esq of Ballinamona Co. Wexford;
he had 7 sons & 6 drs., from his eldest son came the Am’s
of Meanliffe Hall, Thurles Co. Tipp. Thomas Am. was High Sheriff of Tipp. In the reign of Queen Anne (( 1702- 1714)) He died in 1747. One of his sons must ((
)) have been the
Rev. Robert Carew Am. ((B. 1709?)) for 30 yrs Curate & for 27 yrs Rector of ((Shinrone or Shinrose)) in Kings Co., he was blind for some yrs. Before his death, owing to have been struck by lightning, but took the services at church every Sun. from memory, he died 18/1/1790 aged 80 yrs.
He M. Jane dr. of Anthony Atkinson Esq. of Congart ( this A. Atkinson M. in 1709 Mary dr. of Admiral John Guy celebrated as having ‘’ relieved Derry, raising the boom’’ .
Jane A. (Nee Atkinson)) died 23/1/1763.
Rev. Robert Carew Am. & Jane had 4 sons.
Thomas M
Francis Wheller- 1771 of Ballywire, Tipp.
John born in 1751 ((Twins ??)) ,
Guy ((M. Margaret Williams ??)) & Anthony (( Had Lancelot Carew ??)),
also 4 dr’s. Mary M. to Hugh Wray Esq. of Birr; Mrs Smyth: Mrs Ellard( M. to a clergyman); Alicia D. unmarried )
Thomas had 3 sons
Thomas, Frank & John.The descendants of Thomas & John who both married miss Massey’s, & are in Canada & the U.S. their father having been extravagant & his brother John was impoverished by having rashly signed his name to a promissory bill for him.((
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Frank Am. Was an officer in the Army & served throughout the Peninsular War (( 1808-14)) without a wound. He settled in Jersey & M. as late as 1874. He was living, & still able to walk out with the dogs. (( of little interest->>))
( Uncle Nicholas met a grandson of his in Athens, by the name of de Quetteville, who stayed once at Albury, & on another occasion was there for a day with his mother) This M. de Quetteville died early from consumption & sight of the connection was lost again; escapt((
?)) to hear, incidentally though another relation in 1874 of old Capt. T.Armstrong still being alive & active. He was one of Uncle Nicholas’s heroes, in his boyish days.
John Am. ( Son of Robert C. & Jane Am.) M.
Frances dr. of Thomas
Doolan of Portumna, Galway. Whose wife was
Anna Maria Tidd. Francis Doolan was only 16 on her marriage with J. Am. In
1773 She died in
1844 aged 87. B.
1864.her husband John.Am. died Dec.
1826 age 75 . B.
1751They left many sons. 1) Robert, who M. badly, for the 2nd time, he left a family & has descendents, but they have quite fallen from the position that their grandfather was born in, & which, had he been steady, he would, have been well continued in. 2) Thomas ( our grandfather ((To Kate & J.A.A. my g.father
)) ) was an excellent man; he was at the battle of Talavern; but caught a fever directly afterwards & was compelled in consequence of it’s effect upon his health, to leave the army: he died, before his time. Of fever, he M.15/1/1856.
Catherinne Carroll of a good Co. Galway family. His money went in the failure of a bank. 3) Nicholas was the youngest but one of J.Am’s large family.
(( 5 Carroll’s - Ed. X 2, Pat. x 2 & Thomas of Cool & Ballyglass,
Ahascroghmore in Ballincloon. A lot more in –Griffiths. Kate continues->>))
Therefore also , Richard, Guy, Edward,
William!!!!, Henry, (who died young): Guy Am.
Was a ‘’man among men’’ (as you know we heard much of him from mother. He M. Jane dr. of his uncle Guy. They had no family. Mr. Williams mother was sister of this Jane.
N.B. I have been looking up the various surnames of the families with whom the Am.’s
Intermarried & find them all mentioned in O.Harts ‘’Irish Pedigrees’’ (( Can’t find it anywhere)) which I got a loan of. I shall now endeavour to have the Alexander side of the family. You know they were connected with the Carrolls.
Kate.
The above sketch (( She continues->)) is copied almost word for word from that which Cousin Francis sent me . Kate.
